Konobo, or Eastern Krahn, is a
Kru language
The Kru languages are spoken by the Kru people from the southeast of Liberia to the west of Ivory Coast.
Classification
According to Güldemann (2018), Kru lacks sufficient lexical resemblances and noun class resemblances to conclude a relati ...
of
Liberia.
Krahn is part of the
Wee dialect continuum
A dialect continuum or dialect chain is a series of language varieties spoken across some geographical area such that neighboring varieties are mutually intelligible, but the differences accumulate over distance so that widely separated varie ...
. Whereas Konobo dialect may be considered a distinct language from
Western Krahn dialects, both are intelligible with intermediate dialects.
References
Languages of Liberia
Wee languages
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